Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.